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Leonardo da Vinci's irrelevant? scribbles mark the spot where he first recorded the laws of friction
Law | Mechanical Engineering
A new detailed study of notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci has identified a page of scribbles in a tiny notebook as the place where Leonardo first recorded the laws of friction. The research also shows that he went on to apply this knowledge repeatedly to mechanical problems for more than 20 years.
The sketches and text show Leonardo understood the fundamentals of friction in 1493
Ian Hutchings
Scribbled notes and sketches on a page in a notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, previously dismissed as irrelevant by an art historian, have been identified as the place where he first recorded his understanding of the laws of friction.
The research by Professor Ian Hutchings, Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, is the first detailed chronological study of Leonardo's work on friction, and has also shown how he continued to apply his knowledge of the subject to wider work on machines over the next two decades.
It is widely known that Leonardo conducted the first systematic study of friction, which underpins the modern science of 'tribology', but exactly when and how he developed these ideas has been uncertain until now.
Professor Hutchings has discovered that Leonardo's first statement of the laws of friction is in a tiny notebook measuring just 92 mm x 63 mm. The book, which dates from 1493 and is now held in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, contains a statement scribbled quickly in Leonardo's characteristic 'mirror writing? from right to left.
Ironically the page had already attracted interest because it also carries a sketch of an old woman in black pencil with a line below reading 'cosa bella mortal passa e non dura', which can be translated as 'mortal beauty passes and does not last'. Amid debate surrounding the significance of the quote and speculation that the sketch could represent an aged Helen of Troy, the Director of the V & A in the 1920s referred to the jottings below as 'irrelevant notes and diagrams in red chalk'.
Professor Hutchings's study has, however, revealed that the script and diagrams in red are of great interest to the history of tribology, marking a pivotal moment in Leonardo's work on the subject.
The rough geometrical figures underneath Leonardo's red notes show rows of blocks being pulled by a weight hanging over a pulley - in exactly the same kind of experiment students might do today to demonstrate the laws of friction.
Professor Hutchings said: 'The sketches and text show Leonardo understood the fundamentals of friction in 1493. He knew that the force of friction acting between two sliding surfaces is proportional to the load pressing the surfaces together and that friction is independent of the apparent area of between the two surfaces. These are the 'laws of friction? that we nowadays usually credit to a French scientist, Guillaume Amontons, working two hundred years later.'
'Leonardo's 20-year study of friction, which incorporated his empirical understanding into models for several mechanical systems, confirms his position as a remarkable and inspirational pioneer of tribology.'
Professor Hutchings's research traces a clear path of development in Leonardo's studies of friction and demonstrates that he realised that friction, while sometimes useful and even essential, also played a key role in limiting the efficiency of machines.
Sketches of machine elements and mechanisms are pervasive in Leonardo's notebooks and he used his remarkably sophisticated understanding of friction to analyse the behaviour of wheels and axles, screw threads and pulleys, all important components of the complicated machines he sketched.
He wanted to understand the rules that governed the operation of these machines and knew that friction was important in limiting their efficiency and precision, grasping, for example, that resistance to the rotation of a wheel arose from friction at the axle bearing and calculating its effect.
'Leonardo's sketches and notes were undoubtedly based on experiments, probably with lubricated,' added Hutchings. 'He appreciated that friction depends on the nature of surfaces and the state of lubrication and his use and understanding of the ratios between frictional force and weight was much more nuanced than many have suggested.'
Although he undoubtedly discovered the laws of friction, Leonardo's work had no influence on the development of the subject over the following centuries and it was certainly unknown to Amontons.
'Leonardo da Vinci's studies of friction' by Professor Ian Hutchings is published in the journal Wear. The paper can be accessed in full via: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043164816300588
or http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/uploads/Hutchings_Leonardo_Friction_2016_v2.pdf
A general article on tribology that discusses its importance in modern engineering can be found at:
http://www.ingenia.org.uk/Content/ingenia/issues/issue66/hutchings.pdf
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Date Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:18:46 +0200
From Willy Tarreau <>
Subject Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.
Hi Olof,
I expected not to participate to this boring discussion, but I think
I need to make a point below :
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 02:16:40AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Another common counter argument is that the code of conduct is
> imposing what's appropriate thoughts and opinions on everybody. I can
> see how that kind of environment _could_ be implemented with the same
> code of conduct as a base, but it doesn't have to be and I know I
> would fight strongly against that. I much prefer all be free to have
> their opinions, but at the same time be respectful of each other when
> we communicate. There are extreme edge cases but they're theoretical
> at this point.
> Disagreements are fine to have, and in many cases they lead to better
> solutions in the end. What's not OK to me is when they veer off of the
> path of respectful and productive discussion.
The reason people are concerned is a matter of culture.
There simply is *no* way to have a completely respectful *and*
productive discussion which works fine around the globe because
people don't have the same emotional offsets when they send and
when they receive.
In some eastern Europe countries someone would naturally say "you're
completely wrong" without any mean intent. In western Europe, people
would instead say "I disagree with you" and in the US they will say
"let me think about it". All of these mean the same thing when they
speak to people of the same culture, but are taken as very slick or
even hypocrit sayings when going from one direction, or as abusive
when going the other direction.
Is this a problem and if so, what can be done about it ? It's a
temporary issue only which will continue to appear from time to time
in various discussions. However, the CoC should be used as a reminder
to both parties during strong arguments :
- the sender should take a look at the CoC as a reminder and see
the difference between insults and just having a strong
argument, and sometimes say "OK excuse me for this one"
- the receiver who feels he's not respected should take a look at
the CoC and think that very likely the sender tries to comply
with it and think twice considering that what he feels is an
insult might just be a way of expressing oneself in another
culture and should not be taken personal.
In my opinion there is a reason why a number of those who people
fear originate from Europe, and there's a reason why those who need
to invent CoC because they feel not respected come from US. It's
just a matter of different culture. None of them are wrong, but it
hurts more one way than the other one. The other way around also
exists (i.e.: "this person bores me") and can be detrimental to
productive code as well if contributors are not trusted by being
"too slick", but then nobody feels hurt and nobody complains about
Personally I don't take the CoC as a rule but just as a guideline and
a reminder that there are people out there who could feel shocked by
my words without me understanding why. It's also these people's
responsibility to report this to me so that I can learn to better
communicate with them in a way that doesn't hurt their sensitivity.
I personally never felt hurt by the words of anyone here, including
Linus telling me things around "you're stupid" because that's the
natural way to express a disagreement in my culture and I understand
it in a way which other people would probably translate to "dear
willy, please listen to me more carefully because I think it might
be the third time I try a different approach to explain this to you".
For some people the latter is more appropriate, but I personally hate
its efficiency and I strongly prefer the former. However I can
understand that other people would prefer the latter and that's
where it seems to me that senders should make the effort to be half
ways between the two and receivers should make the effort to think
that a half-way sentence means one or the other depending on their
culture but that they are similar and not irrespectful.
I would not be surprised if most of the people having issues with
the CoC were mostly european and if the people who feel protected
by it are mostly US-based (please note that I'm saying "mostly",
I'm not cutting the world between two sides). It's just that the
document tries to address ones' sensitivity at the expense of the
ability to use natural ways to express oneself for other ones, and
some can feel a bit censored. I tend to think that the doc should
talk about cultural differences and translation issues when turning
natural language to English before starting to speak about insults
or attacks, but that's not very important IMHO.
Overall I'm not worried by what's in this file, people will make a
lot of noise about it for two weeks, will explain how hypocrit they
feel it is or how insufficient it is to protect their sensitivity,
nobody will change much the way they communicate, but over time
people will learn to think "maybe he didn't really mean this", and
that will already be a step forward. We'll see in Greg's next annual
report if this has a negative implication on the number of commits
per hour, since in the end it's all that matters (and I bet it won't).

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⚔Combat
3.1 Level 1-5
3.2 Levels 6-11
3.3 Levels 12-18
3.5 Levels 25+
The Falcon punch is quite a common skill, but not many heroes can master it perfectly. Heroes must be both quick and nimble, and must be deadly accurate. Although the punch itself is light and requires little energy to use, it is both deadly and powerful. The name of the skill is derived from a legendary hero who, in a moment of drunken fury, delivered a punch with the speed to ignite air, and while delivering the punch, twisted his fist in such a way as to give a shape that somewhat resembled a falcon to the fire, thus creating the falcon punch.
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Levels 12-18
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At this point, the hero has learned the proper technique, perfecting the angle of the arc, and the cry of "Falcon-- PUNCH!!!" In addition, some heroes are capable of throwing this punch so fast, creating so much friction against the air, that their fist will ignite the air around it, further enhancing the destructive power of the punch. The speed, power and accuracy of the Falcon Punch skill at this level is enough to punch a hole in the strongest tree, or create a large crater in the ground, or more likely, a monster. A single strike will not only knock out the recipient of the punch, it will cause every organ to fail at once, sending them straight to whatever god they serve with several holes In the hero's chest
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Broken Spectre by Richard Mosse
Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning cry over catastrophic destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon's extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse's most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques.
Broken Spectre is an immersive, 72-minute film that shifts between a manifold of ecological narratives, from the topographic to the anthropocentric, and to a careful examination of nonhuman violence and survival. Mosse and his team spent years documenting different fronts of destruction, degradation and environmental crimes in the Amazon Basin and related eco-systems.
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As climate change continues to define our era and the future of the planet, Mosse bears witness to a rapidly unfolding catastrophe: recent scientific studies predict that the Amazon is close to reaching a tipping point, at which stage it will no longer be able to generate rain, triggering mass forest dieback and carbon release at devastating levels, impacting climate change, biodiversity, and local and international communities. Mosse shows both human sides of the tragedy: from the Yanomami and Munduruku Indigenous communities fighting for survival; to illegal gold miners poisoning and destroying entire river systems for tiny handfuls of gold; alongside Brazilian cowboys wilfully burning their pristine surroundings to create pasture for cattle to sell on international meat and leather markets.
Created from 2019 to 2022, Broken Spectre is published ahead of gravely significant general elections in Brazil, in which Jair Bolsanaro's victory may seal the destruction of the irreplaceable Amazon forever.
Richard Mosse (b. 1980) is an Irish artist currently based in New York. Documenting some of the most significant humanitarian and environmental crises of our time, his work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Barbican Art Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Recent survey exhibitions were held at Kunsthalle Bremen (2022) and MAST Foundation, Bologna (2021). Mosse was the recipient of the Prix Pictet 2017, the winner of the 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, and represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale with the six-screen video installation The Enclave in 2013.
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Xbox and Bethesda at E3 2021: The 20 biggest announcements (and a mini fridge)
Announcements and trailers for Starfield, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Redfall, and more
By Jeff Ramos and Jeffrey Parkin Jun 13, 2021, 3:07pm EDT
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E3 2021 takes place June 12-15 as a re-imagined, all-virtual online event. Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, and others will deliver new video game announcements, trailers, release dates, and more.
One of E3 2021's biggest events was the joint showcase with Xbox and Bethesda. The event featured all-new information, announcements, and trailers for Starfield, STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl, Back 4 Blood, Battlefield 2042, Psychonauts 2, Fallout 76, Halo Infinite, Diablo 2: Resurrected, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5, and Redfall.
Here's a roundup of the biggest announcements from the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase at E3 2021.
The trailer for Starfield leaked a little earlier, but we got another look at the upcoming game during the Xbox and Bethesda game showcase.
Starfield is coming exclusively to Xbox Series X and Windows PC on Nov. 11, 2022. The title will also be available for Xbox Game Pass.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl is the latest entry in the survival shooter franchise. The new trailer that premiered during the Xbox and Bethesda showcase revealed four minutes of gameplay and the title's release date. The sequel will be available on Apr. 22, 2022 and is coming to Game Pass on day one.
Back 4 Blood, the upcoming zombie shooter and spiritual successor to the Left 4 Dead series, is coming to Xbox Game Pass upon release.
Avalanche announced its newest game, Contraband, at Xbox's E3 2021 livestream. It's the latest title from the Just Cause team. The trailer describes it as a co-op, open-world game set in a fictional version of the 1970s.
Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life
Sea of Thieves is getting a new update called A Pirate's Life. The free update is coming to the swashbuckling title on June 22. This add-on to the pirate sandbox game will feature new characters for the series: Captain Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Electronic Arts and DICE revealed Battlefield 2042 with a cinematic, explosive, mood-setting trailer, but on Sunday, Battlefield fans got their first look at the futuristic military shooter's gameplay.
The new trailer, revealed at Microsoft's Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase at E3 2021, shows off the game's futuristic weapons of war, real-time destructive weather like tornadoes and sandstorms, and massive maps that support up to 128 players at once.
Twelve Minutes, publisher Annapurna Interactive's adventure game played in 12-minute loops, will be released on Aug. 19.
Double Fine's psychic, story-driven adventure game, Psychonauts 2, will available on Aug. 25 on Windows PC Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The title will also be available on Game Pass.
Fallout 76 updates
We got two new trailers for Fallout 76. Steel Reign will be a free story update that concludes the tale that follows the Brotherhood of Steel.
Another free update that takes players out of Appalachia. The Pitt will take Fallout players to Pittsburgh in a series of story-driven, repeatable missions.
Hades is coming to Xbox Game Pass
Supergiant Games is bringing Hades, their award-winning action roguelike to consoles, including the Xbox One and Xbox Series X on Aug. 13. The title will also be available on Game Pass.
A new trailer for Halo Infinite showcased its gameplay during Microsoft's E3 keynote on Sunday. The tentpole sci-fi shooter, delayed last year, will release during the 2021 holiday season along with a free-to-play multiplayer mode.
Diablo 2: Resurrected, the remaster of the classic game will launch on multiple platforms including Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X on Sept. 23.
The title will also have a multiplayer beta coming in August.
Monomi Park announced a 2022 release date Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to their gloopy adventure game.
A reveal trailer for a new snowboarder title Shredders shows off snowy mountain peaks and plenty of sick tricks. Not much else is known about the title yet however the trailer claims that the game should come out around Dec. 2021.
A trailer for the forthcoming first-person game, Atomic Heart, doesn't offer a lot of background information. We know it's set in the Soviet Union, in the year 1955, and yet there's clearly a lot here that's not very well explained. For example, what's with all these wacky robots? And why does that old woman have a ladle?
Replaced is a new sci-fi action platform with detailed and fluid pixel art graphics coming in 2022. The title will also be available on Game Pass upon launch.
Obsidian Entertainment's latest role-playing series is getting a sequel with The Outer Worlds 2. The cheeky trailer doesn't have too many details about the new title, but it will be coming to the Xbox Series X and Windows soon.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to the Xbox Series X on July 27. The console version of the game will also be available on Game Pass when it launches.
This Xbox Series X version promises to have "the same level of depth and complexity" as its PC counterpart. The E3 announcement also detailed a one-of-a-kind partnership with Paramount Studios to coincide with the launch of the Top Gun: Maverick film.
Forza Horizon 5 will take players to a highly detailed recreation of Mexico. The fifth edition of Playground Games' action-racing franchise will launch for Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X on Nov. 9, 2021. It will also be available on Game Pass on day one.
A gameplay trailer for Forza Horizon 5 showed off several modes in the game, including several minigames.
Redfall was the final game that was announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Game Showcase. Arkane's new Xbox exclusive open-world, co-op, shooter seems to feature multiplayer gameplay with players using special powers and unique weapons to fight off hordes of vampires.
Redfall will launch during Summer 2022.
Xbox Mini Fridge
Yes, this is really happening.
New titles for Game Pass
Nearly all of Microsoft and Bethesda's upcoming titles will be available on Microsoft's subscription service, with most of them coming to both the PC and Console versions too.
Here are some of the games that were announced for Game Pass during the Xbox and Bethesda Game Showcase:
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
If you want to see all the titles coming to the subscription service, check out our round-up of upcoming Xbox Games Pass games.
E3 2021 trailers: The best and biggest new games shown this week
Marvel's Avengers' Black Panther expansion launches Aug. 17
Every Xbox Game Pass game announced at E3 2021


Global economy is muddling through with commodities and EMs bottoming out. The world's major central banks continue to pursue accommodative policies. The US Fed's tightening is likely to be gradual and economic data-dependent. Increased global economic uncertainty due to Brexit makes the prospects for monetary policy normalization more remote.
Russia is set to see an improvement in economic conditions. Recent data on economic activity was better than market expectations. Market forecasts for 2016-17 are now being upgraded. Our base case scenario for 2017 implies 1.5% real GDP growth and declining inflation assuming an average oil price of $55/bbl.
The disinflationary trend continues. Inflation continues to slow faster than the market expects. The CBR estimates headline inflation falling to 5.5-6.0% YoY for 2016YE and 4% YoY until 2017. Headline CPI was reported at 6.4% as of Sep'16.
The government budget deficit (approximately -3%) will be funded by the sovereign wealth fund, privatization proceeds and higher dividends from SOEs. Privatization plans have been accelerated with a $15 bln target. An increase in the dividend payout ratio of SOEs from 25% to 50% will provide another $6 bln to fill the 2017 budget gap.
Our top-down and bottom-up DCF models indicate 20-25% equity market returns over the next 12 months. Key points underpinning Russia's investment case are EPS recovery from a very low base and an eventual re-rating in multiples as geopolitical tensions subside and SOEs increase dividend payouts. We see ~15% EPS CAGR for 2016-18 assuming a gradual recovery in Brent to $60/bbl by 2018.
Spread compression in hard currency FI space is hitting its limits. Excess domestic liquidity and limited supply are likely to continue supporting the Russian Eurobond market, but there is less room for further spread tightening. We maintain our core positions in solid credit stories with shorter maturities, while also, focusing on a particular duration and credit selections based on relative valuation and improved credit potential.
Over the next 12 months we expect the OFZ curve to gradually flatten as a result of short-term rates going down. If the disinflation trend continues over 2016-17 the OFZ curve could normalize in 2+ years. The banking system is likely shift from a deficit to a surplus of ruble liquidity in 4Q16, which is highly supportive for RUB bonds. The CBR key rate could be reduced by 250 bps till the end of 2017, from 10% currently to 7.5%.


I guess I've been kind of all about fruit this summer with my blueberry jam and my cherry cobbler and now with my Peach and Pecan Quinoa Salad.
It starts with cooked quinoa (just follow the directions on the package). FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm not always crazy about quinoa. But I know it's quite good for you, and when it's combined with delicious things, it can be quite good!
This salad combines quinoa with delicious things. Things like green onions, bell pepper, cucumber, pecans and PEACHES. Fresh peaches!
I love that it's colorful too. "Eat colorful foods and you'll be eating healthy things." That's always what I've heard.
The dressing is a simple mix of yogurt, lemon, garlic and honey. Add as little or as much honey as you'd like (depending on how much you like a sweet flavor).
It's pretty isn't it? I save a few of the mix-ins to sprinkle on top for a prettier presentation. The dressing mixed with the salad ingredients makes for a quite delicious, summery salad (especially if you're a lover of fresh peaches). If you're not into pecans, you can leave them out or sub in almonds instead. Enjoy!
Add the remaining salad ingredients to the bowl: pecans, onion, peaches, cucumber and bell pepper. Stir to combine.
In a separate small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients- add a little honey at a time until you reach desired sweetness. I ended up drizzling some honey directly into the salad at the end to get it just right! Add the dressing to the salad and stir to combine. Serve immediately, or cover and chill until ready to serve.
I used Greek yogurt and it was just fine! Delicious and nutritious and all the veg and peaches are in season. Perfect!!!


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Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice
Joann M. Tufariello, Sangho Cho, Marshall S. Horwitz
The adenovirus (Ad) 14.7-kDa protein, which is called '14.7K,' has been shown to function as a general inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) cytolysis in tissue culture assays, and the effect of this antagonism on viral pathogenesis in vivo has recently been explored. In infections of immunocompetent BALB/c mice, we have shown previously that Ad type 2 (Ad2) 14.7K, when cloned into a vaccinia virus (VV) vector in combination with the gene for murine TNF, is able to counteract much of the attenuating effect of TNF on VV virulence. In the present study we utilized VV constructs expressing various combinations of Ad 14.7K and TNF in infections of T- and B-cell-deficient C.B-17 severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice to determine whether these cells are directly necessary for 14.7K's reversal of TNF-mediated viral attenuation. The mice were infected by the intranasal route, and mortality, morbidity, histopathology, and virus replication in selected organs were evaluated at various times after infection. We found that, in the SCID murine pneumonia model, neither the attenuation by TNF nor its reversal by Ad 14.7K require the participation of T or B lymphocytes or their secreted products. SCID mice infected with VV expressing both 14.7K and TNF-[VV 14.7(+)/TNF] were generally well clinically for the first 7-10 days after infection; however, they developed a subacute or chronic illness, succumbing to disseminated VV infection at least 3 weeks earlier than mice infected with VV expressing TNF alone [VV 14.7(-)/TNF]. Animals infected with VV 14.7(+)/TNF were shown to have higher initial titers of virus and delayed clearance from the lungs as well as more rapid spread of virus to internal organs than animals infected with VV 14.7(-)/TNF. SCID mice infected intranasally with VV without TNF showed a dramatic increase in acute disease and succumbed within the first 1-2 weeks after infection, independent of Ad 14.7K expression.
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Tufariello, J. M., Cho, S., & Horwitz, M. S. (1994). Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(23), 10987-10991. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.23.10987
Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice. / Tufariello, Joann M.; Cho, Sangho; Horwitz, Marshall S.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 91, No. 23, 08.11.1994, p. 10987-10991.
Tufariello, JM, Cho, S & Horwitz, MS 1994, 'Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 91, no. 23, pp. 10987-10991. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.23.10987
Tufariello JM, Cho S, Horwitz MS. Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1994 Nov 8;91(23):10987-10991. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.23.10987
Tufariello, Joann M. ; Cho, Sangho ; Horwitz, Marshall S. / Adenovirus E3 14.7-kilodalton protein, an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor cytolysis, increases the virulence of vaccinia virus in severe combined immunodeficient mice. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1994 ; Vol. 91, No. 23. pp. 10987-10991.
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Was Patty Hearst a Feminist?
Jeffrey Toobin's new biography refuses to take her radical beliefs seriously.
By Malcolm Harris
In my high school psychology class, we watched a video about the 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapping of Patricia Hearst. It wasn't quite as popular as the video about the creation of LSD, but the Hearst movie stuck in my head. Or at least some parts of it. The class context was brainwashing, and I remember those elements: Hearst's confinement in a closet, her drugging, her sexual assault at the hands of deranged cult leader Donald DeFreeze, her ideological programming, her flat voice on the coerced recordings. Eventually the heiress came to identify with her captors and joined them in their crime sprees, until she was captured and deprogrammed in jail.
AMERICAN HEIRESS: THE WILD SAGA OF THE KIDNAPPING, CRIMES AND TRIAL OF PATTY HEARST by Jeffrey ToobinDoubleday, 384 pp., $28.95
That's more or less the interpretation of the Hearst case history settled on. Hearst was convicted for her part in SLA activities—the jury didn't buy "brainwashing"—but President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence and Bill Clinton gave her a full pardon. Brainwashing and Stockholm Syndrome are now taught to high schoolers, with Hearst as example number one. But there has always been a Hearst truther contingent that believes she really became the revolutionary "Tania" and has largely evaded responsibility for her crimes.
More than 40 years after the abduction, author and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin is trying to set the record straight with American Heiress: The Wild Saga of The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. She was convicted, so the title doesn't necessarily betray a particular perspective on the events, but Toobin is convinced that Hearst's radical conversion was genuine albeit short-lived. Reading through the evidence—or even a basic accounting of the actual events—it's hard to disagree with him. In Toobin's story, the kidnapping was something like the most intense study abroad trip of all time.
At the time of her taking, Patricia was still the unruly 19-year-old granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. After being kicked out of a few private schools, the rebellious Patricia "made a determined play" for one of her young teachers, Steven Weed, and the two of them moved to Berkeley, California. By then her fiancé, Weed enrolled as a graduate student in philosophy at the University of California and Patricia enrolled (unenthusiastically) as an undergraduate. There's no disputing Hearst's situation before the SLA shows up: She was lonely, listless, vaguely suicidal, and engaged to a total fucking tool.
There is one opinion that unites everyone in the story, from the militants, to Patricia, to her family, to Toobin: Weed is a jerk. After running away with his student, he turned her into a teenage housewife, isolated from friends and family, cleaning up after him while he did philosophy. Here's how she later described the situation: "I paid the rent, bought the furniture, bought the groceries, cooked all the meals (even while working eight hours a day and carrying a full course load), and if I wasn't there to cook, Steve didn't eat." When the commando team arrived to kidnap Patricia, Weed fled from the home yelling, "Take whatever you want!"
Toobin goes so far as to place Weed at Patricia's hinge moment. Giving an ill-advised interview to the local public television station, Weed said of his missing fiancée, "Oh, she's pretty, you know, the prettiest of any of the Hearst daughters. But then none of them are raving beauties. She's a bright girl, too. Not brilliant, of course, but reasonably bright. She's a simple girl." Weed probably didn't imagine that Patricia was watching on television with her new friends.
In Toobin's story, the kidnapping was something like the most intense study abroad trip of all time.
Watching your boyfriend say that about you in front of a gang of militant feminists is enough to drive any young woman to a life of crime. Toobin is sympathetic and even understanding on psychological grounds. He believes that, compared to the girls' schools and her Berkeley house, at some point being underground with the SLA became the freest time in Patricia's young life. Based on his research and the nature of the changing story, Toobin doesn't find the lawyer-confabulated stories about Hearst's assault, torture, and brainwashing credible. Her voice does sound unusually flat on the recordings the SLA released, but Toobin writes that this was in fact just how she talked. It somewhat resembled the tone of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Toobin writes, who was also a product of private girls' school education. If Patricia's voice was a product of brainwashing, it wasn't the SLA's work.
Whether it was a rifle at a bank robbery, a flirty schoolgirl's smile, or the compelling narrative of a brutalized heiress, Toobin concludes that Hearst "used the tools at her disposal" at each stage in her life. Her situation was never of her choosing, and Patricia always adapted. If her relationship with the SLA's Willy Wolfe couldn't be considered consensual based on the context, it's worth noting (which Toobin does not) that at 17 years old Hearst was too young under California law to consent to sex with Weed. Her relationship with her court-ordered cop bodyguard Bernard Shaw—who became her husband in 1979, two months after her release from prison—falls along similarly complicated lines.
American Heiress centers on the question of Hearst's complicity for her part in the SLA's robberies, general revolutionary activities, and the accidental killing of bank customer Myrna Opsahl. The conventional explanation is that Patricia was out of her mind, even if the jury didn't buy it at the time. Toobin's explanation is more sophisticated: Patricia Hearst's kidnapping was one in a series of situations of which she made the best. She is no more to blame for her SLA actions than for her membership in the ruling class as a Hearst—that is to say, kind of, but not really.
Toobin doesn't have the background to understand—never mind explain—the theoretical reasons for Patricia's conversion or the SLA's motivations. He calls Shulamith Firestone's Dialectic of Sex (Patricia's "Bible") "dense and at times nearly incomprehensible." And yet Toobin writes that "From DeFreeze on down, the comrades parroted Marxist lingo more than they understood it." This is a common double-move for mainstream commentators when it comes to radicals and their texts: There's nothing there, and they don't understand it anyhow.
The book's explanatory frame is psychologism. Randy Hearst has emotional restraint like "many sons of volatile fathers." The SLA's Mizmoon Soltysik and DeFreeze "shared something more than their radical politics—a deep loathing for their fathers." Toobin makes much of Patricia's relationship with her mother; "Mom should get out of her black dress, that doesn't help at all," she admonished her about a press conference outfit. The SLA's rebellion took on the flavor of the times, but American Heiress sees them, charitably, as individuals struggling with their own circumstances caught up in larger cultural themes. Is that good enough?
Toobin may not have read his Marx, but the members of the SLA were not trying to explain the world or themselves. They were engaged with history. Long after anyone had held a gun to her head, Patricia researched radical feminism with Berkeley bomb-maker Wendy Yoshimura. Women were an active majority in the SLA and resulting splinter groups, and their heavily politicized lesbian relationships complicate the stereotype we have of '70s left-wing groups as dominated by male libidos. In the feminist study group, "Patricia was such a thoughtful participant in the discussions of female empowerment," Toobin writes, "that the group designated her their scribe, and she occupied her days writing a manifesto of female liberation, sexual and otherwise." Perhaps because he lacks the necessary background knowledge, Toobin is shockingly uninterested in the content of that thought beyond its category.
Long after anyone had held a gun to her head, Patricia researched radical feminism with Berkeley bomb-maker Wendy Yoshimura.
One of his chapters is called "Feminist bomb-making," which Toobin seems to think is clever, but he fails to locate the SLA in historical relation to similar groups. Germany's Red Army Faction, for example, was a concurrent left-wing revolutionary organization that followed many of the same playbooks and was similarly managed in large part by militant feminists. In her study Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the RAF, Patricia Melzer argues that it's difficult to understand violent action as feminist practice because, typically, "a feminist subject rejects violence as a patriarchal mechanism of oppression." Instead, Melzer calls for us to understand "feminist" "not as a marker for moral, progressive politics but as a marker for—often troubling and violent—challenges to existing gender norms." Hearst definitely had that part covered.
Psychologism doesn't seek to explain, it explains away. That Patricia Hearst found herself as a young woman in the 1970s constantly subject to the whims of mediocre men was the basis for her politics, not an excuse for her actions. "The trial of Patty Hearst was about more than her participation in a bank robbery," writes France Winddance Twine in Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism, "It was a proxy for a national debate that asked how affluent white girls became armed insurgents, anti-racists and anti-capitalist political dissidents. How did it happen?" At one point, it seems, that's a question Patricia Hearst was inclined to answer.
After her arrest, Patricia had a jailhouse conversation with a high school friend, Trish Tobin. Neither of them knew they were being recorded. Hearst told Tobin she looked forward to giving a statement after the judge's ruling on bail:
It'll be a revolutionary feminist perspective totally, and you know I never got… I guess I'll just tell you like, my politics are real different from back in the day.
Booked into custody, she listed her occupation as "urban guerrilla."
Isolating her from her comrades, Hearst's paternalistic legal team committed her to a temporary-insanity-style defense. The sympathetic local paper the Berkeley Barb called her lawyer's strategy "a sexist lie." In the long-term, American society traded Patricia Hearst a life outside prison for that version of the story, and for her silence on the rest. With Toobin's book, the deal still holds. Last year, her Shih Tzu, "Rocket," won the Toy category at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
Malcolm Harris is a writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. On Twitter, he's @bigmeaninternet.
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Summary/Abstract: Jacob A. Blumberg was a native Atlanta and salesman at Briarcliff Mills for 55 years. The papers include telegrams from the marriage of Miriam Saul and Jacob Blumberg, 1913, and the genealogy of the Saul family.
The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
Preferred Citation: Box #, Folder #, Mss 45, Jacob A. Blumberg Family Papers, The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
Arrangement: All material is arranged in alphabetical order and chronologically within each folder.
Biographical/Historical Note Jacob A. Blumberg was born in 1889. In 1913, he married Miriam Saul. They had two daughters and a son, Marvin. Jacob was a retired partner of Briarcliff Mills where he had been a salesman for 55 years. He was a member of the Scottish Rite Masons, the Shriners and the King Solomon Lodge No. 460 in Birmingham.
Scope and Content Researchers studying the Blumberg Family Papers will gain insight into Jewish life in Atlanta during the first part of the 20th century. All material is arranged in alphabetical order and chronologically within each folder.


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2017 Writing Festival Event Schedule (April 6, 2017)
Normandale Community College will host several readings and literary events during the week of April 3, culminating with the eighth annual Writing Festival on Thursday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All events are free and open to the public and require no pre-registration or tickets.
Monday, April 3: Naomi Kritzer, 3 - 3:50 pm, Room C 2036 - Kritzer is a blogger and speculative fiction author, whose short story "Cat Pictures Please" won a Hugo (2016), Nebula (2015), and Locus Award (2016) for Best Short Story. She will read from her work and discuss her career as both a nonfiction blogger and speculative fiction writer.
Wednesday, April 5: Duchess Harris, 1 - 3 pm, Garden Room, Kopp Student Center - Harris is a professor and chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College. Her other publications are the co-authored book Black Lives Matter with Sue Bradford Edwards, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama, and an edited volume with Bruce Baum, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity (Duke University Press). Her fourth book, Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA is about the Black women who did mathematical calculations for John Glenn to go to the moon. Harris was motivated to write this book with Sue Bradford Edwards because her grandmother was in the group of the first 11 recruited to work at NASA. Dr. Harris will be reading from her work and discussing the process of writing and publishing nonfiction books.
Thursday, April 6: Normandale Writing Festival, 10 am - 3 pm, Partnership Building/Kopp Student Center, featuring Chris Santiago, Keynote Speaker - This year's keynote will be on Thursday, April 6 at 12 p.m., in the Garden Room, Kopp Student Center.
Santiago, author of the Minnesota Book Award nominated poetry book, Tula, will read from his work, which centers on the experience of first and second generation immigrants, and will discuss poetry and the writing process.
Normandale's annual Writing Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and features 50-minute panels, workshops, and readings centering on all types of writing, including fiction, business documents, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, and more.
A full schedule will also be posted in late March at http://normandaleafacw.wordpress.com.
Normandale is home to a nationally-known AFA in Creating Writing program, and boasts seven published and award-winning authors on its faculty.For more information on this event, please contact Kris Bigalk, Director of Creating Writing at kris.bigalk@normandale.edu, or at 952-358-8384.


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Cowley College's Phi Theta Kappa organization welcomed 62 new members during its spring induction ceremony held Sunday in the Earle N. Wright Community Room.
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Provence: just one word conjures visions of endless blue skies, charming villages and miles and miles of smooth roads to be ridden. One of the things I miss most when not in France is riding my bike. I know, I know… you're thinking, what? Don't you miss the food, the wine, the culture? Of course I do, but one of the things about riding a bike in Provence is the complete sensory experience it provides. You actually feel the sun and wind kissing your skin, you smell the intoxicating scent of lavender as you pass by the fields, and you hear the cicadas intense chirping emanating from stands of pin parasol trees. And when you've gone 60 km in searing heat, that crisp, cold après-ride beer never tasted so amazing! Cycling heightens all your senses, and for me it's the closest thing there is to flying. It makes me feel free and alive.
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WONDERLAND BY ZOJE STAGE
Wonderland is Zoje Stage's sophomore novel. While I enjoyed her debut this one just didn't work for me. I felt like parts of the book dragged and the supernatural aspects hovered to close to fantasy.
Release Date: July 14, 2020
Genre: Horror. Supernatural.
If Shirley Jackson wrote The Shining, it might look like this deliciously unsettling horror novel from the acclaimed author of Baby Teeth.
A mother must protect her family from the unnatural forces threatening their new and improved life in a rural farmhouse.
The Bennett family - artist parents and two precocious children - are leaving their familiar urban surroundings for a new home in far upstate New York. They're an hour from the nearest city, a mile from the nearest house, and everyone has their own room for the very first time. Shaw, the father, even gets his own painting studio, now that he and his wife Orla, a retired dancer, have agreed that it's his turn to pursue his passion.
But none of the Bennetts expect what lies waiting in the lovely
THE RETURN BY RACHEL HARRISON
While I wish I could have rated this one higher, I simply can't because it was not my cup of tea. I was expecting a psychological thriller of some kind but it wasn't even close.
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her.
Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she's emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?
THE SUN DOWN MOTEL BY SIMONE ST. JAMES
The Sun Down Motel is an incredibly written and eerie read that mixes both horror and thriller. This is my first read from the author but you can bet I'll be reading more from her in the future!
Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: February 18, 2020
Genre: Psychological Horror. Ghost Story.
Pages: 3336 pages
Format: Hardcover. BOTM Pick.
Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.
Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isn't right at the motel, something haunting and scary.
Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.
THE TWISTED ONES BY T. KINGFISHER
I really wanted to love The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher but it blurred the links of fantasy and I didn't care for it. Other will probably find enjoyment more than I did.
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Series: None. Standalone.
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there's more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things
CASTAWAYS BY BRIAN KEENE
I used to obsessively read signet horror novels back in 2009 and Brian Keene was one of the authors I had meant to read but haven't. Well, I am so glad I jumped back on that train because this book was everything I wanted and needed!
Release Date: February 1, 2009
They came to the deserted island to compete on a popular reality television show. Each one hoped to be the last to leave. Now they're just hoping to stay alive, because the island isn't deserted after all. Contestants are disappearing, but they aren't being eliminated by the game. They're being taken by the monstrous, half-human creatures that live deep in the jungle.
The men will be slaughtered. The women will be kept alive as captives. Night is falling, the creatures are coming, and rescue is so far away...
Deadite Press is proud to present Brian Keene's tribute to the late, great Richard Laymon!
"Bloody, vile, violent and nasty. Castaways is a can't put down page turner." -House of Horrors


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Sirisena Severely Hits Out At Ranil Again: Says UNP Leader Is A "Political Curse" And His Policies Don't Suit The Country
President Maithripala Sirisena, addressing the special convention of the SLFP, severely criticised UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and described him as a "political curse".
"I know members of the UNP loathe me. But I must tell them that I acted with the intention of saving the UNP," Sirisena said, in his speech.
"I issued five Gazette notifications last month. I used my executive powers to sign them with the intention of protecting the country," he said while blaming Wickremesinghe for destroying the good governance government.
"I don't have a personal problem with Ranil Wickremesinghe. But he does not suit the country. His line of thinking does not suit the country.He doesn't respect our culture and traditional values. He does not feel for the ordinary people in the country," Sirisena said
Sirisena also added that the current political crisis was created by Wickremesinghe.
He also promised to resolve the current political crisis in seven days and asked the public to trust his words.
President Says People Can Exercise Franchise To Elect New Govt. In Five Months: "Only A Government With Clean Politicos Can…
SLPP To Launch Manifesto For Presidential Election On October 11: No Official Statement On Presidential Candidate Yet
National Thowheed Jamaath Colombo District Organizer Mohammed Fawas Released On Bail By Colombo Magistrate: Passport Impounded
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Elections Commission Chairman Assures Presidential Polls Will Not Be Delayed:"All Measures Put In Place To Hold Election Between Nov 08…
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Coffee Cakes Learn four indispensable coffee cake recipes.
With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart's tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods.
If you love coffee cakes as much as Martha does — you'll love learning all four of the indispensable recipes featured in this episode. Watch as Martha demonstrates a rhubarb upside-down crumb cake, jam-filled crumb-topped coffee cake muffins, a streusel cake with a confectioners' sugar glaze, and a glazed lemon blueberry coffee cake.
You don't have to be Scottish to love shortbread, and this deliciously dense treat is easier to make than you might think. Martha demonstrates how to make shortbread wedges, brown-butter shortbread lemon bars, brown-sugar pecan shortbread cookies, and a pumpkin tart with pressed-in shortbread tart shell — perfect for fall.
Brioche is light, airy and one of Martha's favorite breads. In this episode, she starts by making the brioche dough and then turns it into three wonderful brioche variations — brioche à tête, brioche loaf, and baba au rhum. She also creates Martha's French toast, a breakfast favorite.
There's nothing like a great cookie. In this episode Martha makes truly delectable brown sugar chocolate chip cookies — the recipe comes from Martha's daughter Alexis. Next Martha demonstrates how to make an old-fashioned lemon-sugar cookie, a chewy chocolate ginger-molasses cookie, a sable cookie, and glazed citrus doodles.
Custard has never been so tempting as with Martha's many variations. Join Martha as she shares her recipes for a classic crème brûlée, a cherry clafouti, crème caramel — and to top things off, mocha custards.
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Tuile is a French word for tiles, and when these paper-thin cookies are presented in rows, they're meant to look like the curved tiles on rooftops. Learn how to make five variations with Martha, beginning with the basic tuile batter. She then demonstrates lacy nut cookies, brandy snap cups, the ubiquitous fortune cookie, and chocolate tuile ice cream cones.
Whether you are a beginner or seasoned pro, you'll welcome Martha's expert tips and tricks for making basic breads at home. In this episode she shares a variety of options, including white, multigrain, rye, and Parker House rolls.
Everyone loves pizza, and making it at home can be easy and fun. In this episode, Martha teaches you how to make a wonderfully crisp and super delicious oven-dried heirloom tomato pizza, a delectable grape focaccia, a perfectly thin tarte flambée, and a three-cheese gluten-free calzone using pizza dough.
Follow along as Martha shares her expertise on how to make three lovely celebration cakes, including a four-layer génoise cake with passionfruit buttercream, an orange-almond cake with Italian meringue buttercream piping, and an unforgettable chocolate-rum roulade.
Have you ever made a tart at home? Join Martha as she shares her secrets for making this simple and delicious dessert in four variations. First, she demonstrates an apple tart tatin — an upside down caramelized apple tart — with a pâte brisée crust. She then shows you how to make a chewy chess tart with a cookie crust, lemon meringue tartlets, and min rhubarb and raspberry galettes.
Never thought you could master making a soufflé? Well think again. In this episode, Martha demystifies the art of the soufflé with some of her favorite variations, including a spectacular savory cheese soufflé, a caramel soufflé, a chocolate soufflé, a lemon soufflé, and finally — an iced lemon mousse.